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Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:47:14 +0000FluxBBhttp://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=25671#p25671
I finally figured this one out, I had a udev rule in 11-media-by-label-auto-mount.rules that was performing the USB device mount

# Start at sdb to avoid system harddrive.KERNEL!="sd[b-z][0-9]", GOTO="media_by_label_auto_mount_end"

This didn't play well with thunar-volman which I can only assume decided not to do anything with the device because it had had been mounted by udev.Once I modified this rule so that the USB devices were no longer being mounted by udev, everything worked as expected, when I plug in a USB stick the device is mounted and a file manager window opens showing the content.

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I also noticed, if the USB device is inserted before xfce starts then the desktop icon behaves as you would expect.]]>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:38:44 +0000http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=25542#p25542http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=25540#p25540
The USB device does appear on the left hand side of the thunar window but when I click on it thunar dissapears!Perhaps there is some more information in a log somewhere?]]>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:30:35 +0000http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=25540#p25540http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=25539#p25539
I realize I may not have been clear about what I am really trying to achive :-)What I want, that is when I insert a USB stick a thunar window opens showing me the contents of the USB stick.

I have been trying slim and xwm and multiple methods of invoking xfce, I have reveiwed policykit and consloe kit settings etc but realize now that this isn't my problem because the USB stick is correctly mounting under /media presumably by udev.

Someone is placing an icon on the desktop (can someone please tell me which component does this to aid my diagnosis?) I know it's not volman because if I uninstall volman the icon still appears with the status of "Not Mounted".Can someone please suggest how I should continue my diagnosis? I am more than happy to try anything!

P.S. I noticed that some posts recommend revoving udisks because it's not compatible with thunar-volman however it is required for xfce4-power-manager, perhaps this is information is also outdated?

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I am running Arch linux with thunar and thunar-volman, everything is at the latest and greatest as of 2012-03-30I have dbus gvfs udev pmount upower installed, I do not have usbmount or hal installedI have configured thunar-volman to mount removable drives and media and browse removable media when inserted

When I insert an external USB drive :- o The drive is correctly mounted by udev under /media/disk-label o an icon appears on my desktop o no thunar window opens showing the content o If I double click, or right click open on the desktop icon, nothing appears to happen

It suggests I run "run thunar-volman --device-added <udi-of-your-device> in a Terminal window" in a terminal window passing the UDI address which I should obtain by running "lshal or hal-device". Unfortuately hal has been depricated, is no longer required by thunar-volman and is not installed on my system.

How do I determine the UDI of the external USB device without hal?Is UDI the same as UUID? If I list the external USB drives UUID i get 00EE883BEE882ACCBut running

$ thunar-volman --device-added 00EE883BEE882ACC

I get

thunar-volman: There is no device with the sysfs path "00EE883BEE882ACC".

So I am guessing they are not the same.Many thanks in advance for any help that is offered.